ISN’T democracy in action a truly wonderful thing to behold?

After a comprehensive decision by the people of Britian to vote for Brexit, what do we see happening but an immediate attempt by the losing side of the referendum to block the decision.

More than 17 million of us voted to leave the EU (not to leave Europe).

It was a decisive result, reached after months of campaigning by both sides.

Campaigning not at its best, it must be said.

Untruths and misinformation abounded on both sides.

But nevertheless, the people have spoken and the people’s will must be respected.

Now there is talk of plans by the severely disgruntled Remainers to attempt to block the vote, aided and abetted by the EU.

A petition gained more than three million votes – many of them fake – in a bizarre twist.

The petition, set up months ago by, ironically, a Leave supporter, signed by goodness knows who and from goodness knows where (some 36,000 signatories claimed to come from Vatican City – a place with a population in the hundreds – while thousands more came from North Korea, that country known for its millions of people with Wi-fi access), actually seems to be carrying some weight among people who really should know better.

There is a patronising and undemocratic flavour to the view which seems to be gathering momentum: that the “wrong” result was delivered.

The unsubtle subtext here is that the view was carried by ill-informed, dim bigots who should not have been allowed near a polling booth.

But, as was pointed out on a Question Time special, there are not 17 million bigots and racists in Britain.

Instead, a majority of people have said in a referendum that we wish to extricate ourselves from the undemocratic, failing behemoth that is the EU.

And we northerners came out heavily in favour of that decision.

We voted in our millions to say we have had enough of the EU.

That decisive vote now be respected and acted upon.

“But you didn’t think it through... There’s time to stop this madness... Older voters have scuppered the future of the young...”

These are just a few of the undemocratic sentiments being expressed in the wake of the Brexit vote.

The arrogance of some foot-stamping young people for whom the Brexit result is a huge disappointment would be hilarious were it not so offensive to those of us with considerably more life experience than they.

Baby boomers were around to remember a time before the EU began to place the UK in its stranglehold; and we have indeed had the guts to say (to borrow a quote from MP David Lammy who is trying to reverse the referendum decision) “We can stop this madness”.

Those young people now sticking their bottom lips out and effectively saying “It’s so unfaaair! I haaate you!” (think Harry Enfield’s stroppy teenager, Kevin), need to ask each other where they were on June 23.

For while we baby boomers flocked to the polls in vast numbers – as was well-anticipated – it has emerged that apparently a mere 34 per cent of 18-24-year-olds bothered to exercise the democratic right their forebears fought so hard to give them.

Did they think a remain vote was so in the bag that they didn’t need to tear themselves away from their smartphones?

Did they think we wrinklies would place more importance on cheap mobile roaming charges in Europe than on reclaiming our sovereignty, our democracy and our independence?

Not a chance. Future generations will come to thank us for having the courage to take the UK out of the EU.